Infrastructure

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Printing — by Khairil Yusof — last modified May 04, 2008 11:36 AM

Resources related to printing and setting up print services

CUPS — by Khairil Yusof — last modified May 04, 2008 11:33 AM

CUPS(Common Unix Printing System) provides a portable printing layer for UNIX®-based operating systems. CUPS uses the Internet Printing Protocol ("IPP") as the basis for managing print jobs and queues and adds network printer browsing and PostScript Printer Description ("PPD") based printing options to support real-world printing.

nslint — by Khairil Yusof — last modified May 06, 2008 09:12 PM

nslint is a lint-like program that checks DNS files for errors. DNS or Domain Name System generally maps names to IP addresses and E-mail addresses in a hierarchical fashion. Errors detected include missing trailing dots, illegal characters (RFC 1034), records without matching PTR records and vice-versa, duplicate names in a subnet, duplicate names for an address, names with cname records (RFC 1033), missing quotes, and unknown keywords. It is available as a package on most Linux distributions and FreeBSD

Training.My - Serai Solutions — by Nazrol Hafiz — last modified Jun 11, 2008 12:08 PM

Serai Solutions registered with MoF and managing few portal such as Training.Org.My / Training.My. We offer training & IT Services. Visit our website at www.serai.org and training portal at www.training.org.my

Web Server Preparation For Ministry Of Finance Budget 2008 — by Khairil Yusof — last modified Apr 23, 2008 05:45 PM

This document is designed to provide detailed report for the preparation of a dedicated OSS web server for the Budget 2008 presentation day conducted by the Ministry OfFinance (MOF). The solution provided by OSCC has successfully performs reliably and received more than 130,000 page views without any problem. The solution also provided significant cost savings as it eliminated the need for expensive hardware.

Pound — by Khairil Yusof — last modified Apr 28, 2008 09:39 PM

The Pound program is a reverse proxy, load balancer and HTTPS front-end for Web server(s). Pound was developed to enable distributing the load among several Web-servers and to allow for a convenient SSL wrapper for those Web servers that do not offer it natively. Pound is distributed under the GPL - no warranty, it's free to use, copy and give away.

Open Source Software Reference Architecture (OSSRA) — by Khairil Yusof — last modified May 26, 2008 04:56 PM

The Open Source Software Reference Architecture (OSSRA) document is designed to assist and guide the System Administrator and Technical Support within government agencies in architecting and designing the ICT infrastructure in compliance with all current published ICT policies,guidelines and standards.

Varnish — by Khairil Yusof — last modified Apr 28, 2008 09:38 PM

Varnish is a state-of-the-art, high-performance HTTP accelerator. Varnish is targeted primarily at the FreeBSD 6/7 and Linux 2.6 platforms, and takes full advantage of the virtual memory system and advanced I/O features offered by these operating systems.

iftop — by Khairil Yusof — last modified Jul 09, 2008 12:09 AM

iftop does for network usage what top(1) does for CPU usage. It listens to network traffic on a named interface and displays a table of current bandwidth usage by pairs of hosts. Handy for answering the question "why is our ADSL link so slow?"

Dovecot — by Khairil Yusof — last modified Apr 28, 2008 09:46 PM

Dovecot is an open source IMAP and POP3 server for Linux/UNIX-like systems, written with security primarily in mind. Dovecot is an excellent choice for both small and large installations. It's fast, simple to set up, requires no special administration and it uses very little memory.

FreeBSD Jail — by Khairil Yusof — last modified Apr 28, 2008 09:52 PM

The FreeBSD jail mechanism is an implementation of operating system-level virtualization that allows administrators to partition a FreeBSD-based computer system into several independent mini-systems called jails.

Dataware Sdn Bhd — by Emily Lim — last modified Jun 06, 2008 11:48 AM

A pioneer IT company incorporated in Malaysia since year 1980 with the mission to provide latest technology and greatest value to customer.

Spacewalk - OSS version of RHN Satellite — by Eric H. A. Yeoh — last modified Jun 20, 2008 04:47 PM

Spacewalk is an open source (GPLv2) Linux systems management solution. It is the upstream community project from which the Red Hat Network Satellite product is derived.

Platronix Sdn Bhd — by Shelynn Goh — last modified Jun 26, 2008 11:34 AM

Platronix Sdn Bhd was incorporated in 1999, active since 2000. We are a service oriented technology company with main focus in providing value added services and broadband telephony solutions to our customers. Platronix is a licensed ASP by Malaysia Communications and Multimedia Commission. Our solution are developed using the Open Source Technology. To begin with, Platronix core products are as such:- • Enterprise E-business software Solutions • Education & Training Services • Broadband Telephony Services

Twisted — by Khairil Yusof — last modified May 01, 2008 11:54 AM

Twisted is a networking engine written in Python, supporting numerous protocols. It contains a web server, numerous chat clients, chat servers, mail servers, and more.

O.S. Edge Sdn Bhd — by Peter Cheng — last modified Jun 11, 2008 12:02 PM

Open Source Edge is a provider of open source technology solutions, renowned throughout the industry as a supplier of high quality technical services and skills. Our initial technology focus was based on providing open source technology solutions that helps companies generate competitive values through the managing power of open source technology.

DNS HOWTO — by Khairil Yusof — last modified May 06, 2008 09:10 PM

A very good complete tutorial on understanding DNS basics and setting up domain name servers

OpenLDAP — by Khairil Yusof — last modified May 07, 2008 10:07 AM

OpenLDAP Software is an open source implementation of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol.

LAN-Proxy for Malaysian Meteorological Department — by Khairil Yusof — last modified May 07, 2008 12:22 PM

Main objectives of the project is to create an office local area network that's connect to Internet through oss proxy with dual Internet connection for continuously connectivity. Some of the application being used such as shorewall, squid, dansguardian, ftp service and DNS service. All the client will point to the LAN proxy as the gateway. The Internet connection being used are Jaring leased line and also streamyx enterprise package. Both line are used as a backup for each other. If both line are up, Jaring leased line only used for operational and connection to headquarters while streamyx line used for internet access activities. If Jaring leased line down, all connectivity will used Streamyx ADSL line and also the other way around. Connection status being checked automatically using cronjob.

Ubuntu Malaysia — by Khairil Yusof — last modified May 02, 2008 08:43 AM

Ubuntu Malaysia adalah komuniti pengguna dan pembangun Ubuntu Linux di Malaysia